Toronto Sprawls: A History

by Lawrence Solomon

Book Overview

With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours of its landscape?

In Toronto Sprawls, Lawrence Solomon examines the great migration from farms to the city that occurred in the last half of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772786194
• ISBN13: 9780772786197
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher